08/01/08 The Fake Rockefeller Has A Greenwich Connection In Doctor Hedi Leistner
Friends said Rockefeller always seemed to have his own money and had told people that at age 18 he inherited a vast estate when his parents were killed in a car wreck. But the source said Rockefeller, in fact, was broke.
"He is not a Rockefeller. He has zero money. She was his enabler," the source said....
Sources said the FBI was interested in talking to Manabe and had also reached out to one of Rockefeller's closest friends and confidantes, Hedi Leistner, a Manhattan pediatrician who has known him for years and whom he often described as his aunt.
"She has fielded all the calls of crisis in Clark's life," said a friend.
Leistner who lives in Greenwich, Conn., would not discuss her relationship with Rockefeller yesterday. She also would not say if she had been in contact with him since the abduction.
"Her father wouldn't hurt her," was all Leistner would say of Snooks.
1985: John and Linda Sohus of San Marino disappear, last seen in February by Christopher Crowe Mountbatten Chichester, a man claiming to be the son of a British aristocrat and the lone tenant of their guest house. Authorities come to believe Chichester is an alias of Gerhart Streiter. Relatives and friends receive postcards from Paris signed by Linda Sohus, but investigators are unable to determine if the handwriting is the missing woman’s.
Chichester leaves the guest house in April. 1988:
A truck belonging to the Sohuses turns up 3,000 miles away in Greenwich, Conn. A man calling himself Christopher Crowe had tried to sell it to the son to a local minister. Rather than buy it, he reports it to police. Authorities determine Chichester and Crowe are the same person.
1993: A man calling himself Clark Rockefeller turns up in New York City, quickly ascending to high society and boasting of his priceless art collection.
1994: Workers digging a hole for a pool at the former Sohus property on Lorain Road in San Marino unearth a trisected skeleton wrapped in plastic bags. Authorities believe it is the body of John Sohus and want to question Chichester, described as an urbane gentleman who endeared himself to the rich.
1994: Clark Rockefeller weds Ivy League-educated consultant Sandra Boss on Nantucket. No marriage certificate is filed.
1995: The TV show “Unsolved Mysteries” airs a segment on the Sohus case, titled “Chichester - San Marino Bones.” It concludes by saying authorities want to speak with a German native named Christian Gerhard Streiter, aka Christopher Chichester, aka Christopher Crowe.
May 24, 2001: Reigh Storrow Rockefeller is born.
2006: Boss buys a $2.3 million Beacon Hill brownstone.
08/07/08 Feds investigate if Rockefeller was German student
... Savio said Greenwich police interviewed his family in 1988 about a possible connection between Reiter and the disappearance of Jonathan and Linda Sohus, ...08/07/08 Kidnapping Suspect May Have Lived In Berlin
...Steve Savio, 39, of Berlin, Conn., said Thursday he is "100 percent certain" that Rockefeller is the same person who boarded with his family in 1980 under the name Christian Gerhart Reiter at age 17."The first pictures I saw of him when he didn't have any glasses on, didn't look anything like him," Savio said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press. "But the pictures after he was apprehended, with the glasses, those look just like him."
Savio said Greenwich police interviewed his family in 1988 about a possible connection between Reiter and the disappearance of Jonathan and Linda Sohus, ...
08/07/08 Kidnapper may have Conn. link
He said they also talked to Greenwich police in the late 1980s about Reiter and his possible connection to a missing California couple, whose stolen truck was found in Connecticut ...08/07/08 Kidnapping suspect arrested in Baltimore investigated in cold case
The bespectacled 48-year-old has been jailed since being accused of abducting his daughter from Boston's high-society Back Bay neighborhood. Authorities are now trying to determine whether he's connected to a bag of human bones and a married couple who vanished nearly a quarter-century ago from this wealthy Los Angeles suburb......
... Authorities came close to Chichester in the late 1980s when he was pulled over in Greenwich, Conn., driving Sohus' truck. But by the time the Department of Motor Vehicles had confirmed it was Sohus' truck, Chichester and the vehicle had vanished. ...08/07/08 Rockefeller may have been German student in Conn.
... Savio said Greenwich police interviewed his family in 1988 .......Savio said his family met Reiter after answering an advertisement in a local newspaper from a visiting German teen looking for a place to live.
"Apparently he met someone on a train in Germany from Meriden and they exchanged addresses, and he just showed up on their doorstep six months later looking for a place to live," Savio said.
Savio said when Reiter first moved in, he was sweet. After several months, however, "his true colors started showing," Savio said.
"I recall him thinking he's better than the rest of us," Savio said. "I recall him telling stories about having servants growing up and like that."....
08/07/08 Mystery Man May Have Stayed With CT Family
....Savio's wife, Gwen, said Reiter went to school with her eldest son, Edward. She said Reiter only stayed with the family for seven months, but things went sour because of his elitist attitude........ a report in Thursday's Boston Herald that the FBI has interviewed his family. He said they also talked to Greenwich police in the late 1980s about Reiter and his possible connection to a missing California couple, whose stolen truck was found in ...
08/07/08 New Clues On Rockefeller Lead To More Questions
SAN MARINO, Calif. (CBS News) ― The man in the glasses is not the heir to an oil fortune, that much is known. But who exactly is he? Clark Rockefeller says he's not even sure himself.After years of trading on the famous name, the man dubbed "Crockefeller" and "Rockephony" by the tabloids has had his story take another strange turn as authorities explore whether he may be a long-missing man linked to a California killing that's been unsolved for more than 20 years.
Rockefeller's attorney says his client can't remember anything in his life prior to his 1995 marriage, reports CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace, but prosecutors in the kidnapping case aren't buying it. They're calling Rockefeller more of a schemer than someone having trouble with memory....
... Hadsell said. Authorities came close to Chichester in the late 1980s when he was pulled over in Greenwich, Conn., driving Sohus' truck. ...
...Neighbors on Wednesday remembered Chichester as a smooth talker who was well-dressed and seemed well-educated. He did all the right things to ingratiate himself with his upscale neighbors, including volunteering at the local library, said Ray Cornwall, a neighbor who has lived in the community since the 1970s.
"He's a prototype con man. He's really good at it," said Cornwall, whose daughter dated Chichester briefly in the mid-1980s. "It's going to be hard to prove anything, because he's not left any permanent trail. It's all smoke and mirrors."
08/07/08 Rockefeller' person of interest in Calif. mystery
SAN MARINO, Calif. -- When Clark Rockefeller was arrested on the East Coast on charges of kidnapping his daughter, he told police he didn't remember anything about his past.
Police think otherwise and they want him to fill in the blanks that could connect him to a bag of human bones and a married couple who vanished nearly a quarter century ago in this wealthy Los Angeles suburb.
Two homicide detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department were in Boston on Wednesday to question Rockefeller about Jonathan and Linda Sohus, who vanished without a trace in 1985. But Rockefeller refused to meet with them when they came to the jail, where he's being held without bail....
...Police explored various possibilities, including that Chichester had been in love with Linda Sohus and murdered her husband in a fit of jealousy, Frank Wills, San Marino's former police chief, told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
But then Chichester disappeared, too, and Sohus' mother died in 1988 without any answers.
Lili Hadsell, a former San Marino police sergeant who took the initial missing persons report, said the mother later reported receiving postcards from Linda Sohus from Paris...
...he was pulled over in Greenwich, Conn., driving Sohus' truck. ..,
08/07/08 Boston man investigated in California cold case
...But police have realized Rockefeller's fingerprints matched those on an old license application submitted by Christopher Chichester—a man who lived in a guesthouse on the Sohus' property and was a target of the initial investigation before disappearing himself.John and Linda," Hadsell said. Authorities came close to Chichester in the late 1980s when he was pulled over in Greenwich, Conn., driving Sohus' truck. But by the time the Department of Motor Vehicles had confirmed it was Sohus' truck, Chichester ...
08/07/08 Forensic expert weighs in on San Marino case
SAN MARINO - A forensic expert with the Los Angeles County coroner's office said Wednesday that a man whose remains were unearthed in a San Marino backyard in 1994 likely died from a head wound.
Steve Dowell, a tool mark expert for the Department of Coroner, said that while the bones have not been identified, they are likely the remains of John Sohus, who disappeared along with his wife, Linda, from their Lorain Road home in 1985.
Coroner's investigators have classified the case as a homicide, he said.
"It's a simple conclusion: Why else would they be stuffed into a plastic bag and buried in the backyard?" he said.
Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators have identified Clark Rockefeller, who was,,,,
... He was not heard from again until police stopped him in Greenwich, Conn., in the late 1980s. Later, police determined the truck Chichester was driving belonged to John Sohus.Ruth Sohus told a family friend at the time that John Sohus took several of her credit cards before he disappeared. Charges were made with those cards in New York, said Linda Wetherbee, a family friend.
The disappearance of her son was devastating for Ruth Sohus, who had to sell her house and move into a mobile home in La Puente after suffering a stroke in late 1985.
"We would go to her house and find her sobbing uncontrollably, saying they could have at least sent a letter saying they weren't coming back," family friend Don Wetherbee said at the time.
At some point, Ruth Sohus told relatives she was in contact with her son and his wife through an intermediary, claiming they were on a secret mission. In an episode about the missing persons case, the television show "Unsolved Mysteries" identified the intermediary as Chris Chichester, according to the Boston Herald.
Aside from mysterious postcards from France signed "Linda and John" sent months after the couple vanished, the two were never heard from again..
08/07/08 Frank Girardot: Man's arrest opens bi-coastal mystery... son and daughter-in-law were on a secret mission. In 1989, Chichester briefly resurfaced in another tony enclave - Greenwich, Conn. He was in possession of John Sohus' truck. Then he vanished - just as neatly. Almost forgotten really, until the ..
08/07/08 Boston man questioned in 1985 Calif. mystery
... resolution for John and Linda." Authorities came close to Chichester in the late 1980s when he was pulled over in Greenwich, Conn., driving Sohus' truck. But by the time the Department of Motor Vehicles had confirmed it was Sohus' truck, Chichester .=============================================
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